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Women's Water Polo Rolls Over Regional Foes

UMass defeats Harvard at Amherst: Crimson freshmen debut

Whoopee.

There's not much more reaction to muster for the Harvard women's water polo team, which blistered four divisional opponents this weekend.

Harvard (5-2) is a member of the North Region within the College Water Polo Association's Northeast Division. In the first of its two round-robin tournaments against divisional opponents, the Crimson won by an average of 19.5 goals per match.

All of the matches were at MIT, and all the victims were Boston area schools.

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Harvard began by thrashing Wellesley 26-2 on Saturday then beating MIT 19-6 later in the day. Harvard had beaten MIT earlier in the season, 21-8.

"We went into the weekend with high standards, and I was actually quite disappointed with our game against MIT," Harvard Coach Sachi Gahan'93-94 said. "We came out flat, but we really turned it around the next day and just dominated."

Yesterday, Harvard beat B.U. 21-3 in the first game then beat up on B.C. 27-4.

"We had the best size, speed, ball skills, and goalie," Gahan said. "Sometimes, you can be lulled into playing down to the opponent, but there was none of that yesterday."

The dominating weekend makes quite a statement for the Crimson, which is not ranked in the Top 20 of the coaches' committee poll.

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